Elizabeth, Queen of Sewage UK

[Stavros]

As the catastrophe of Brexit grinds its merciless path through the mess currently known as the 'British Government', Prime Minister No 4 takes charge of a country swimming in shit. Literally -see the link below.

All I can offer is links which explain the relationship Truss does, or might have with the US (courtesy of the Financial Times), and a deeper look at the connections she has made with the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, and her somewhat frosty relations with Nancy Pelosi, frost being a sort of political climate change issue little will be done about, either in the UK or the US.

Mary Elizabeth Truss, you will be told in various media outlets, is the daughter of a Maths Professor so claims to have clear ideas about stats, as allegedly was true of Margaret Thatcher. Truss dressed up as Maggie when she began her leadership campaign, though any hope of re-establishing 1970s fashion as infra-dig has not been maintained, perhaps because of the ridicule it deserved in the press.

She was co-author of Britannia Unchained, a Libertarian manifesto which proclaims the virtues of small state, low tax, regulation lite government. On that basis, and bearing mind she has travelled from the 'Left' ie, Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives, expect her professed Libertarian ideas to take a back seat while she borrows now to pay later. That said, she claims to be committed to a 'bonfire of EU regulations' -where have we heard that before?- but must get these policies through the Commons, where at least half the party don't believe in them. What fun.

You might say, give her a chance. But she entered Govt under Cameron in 2014 and is thus as much in the frame for all the mistakes since then as Cameron, May and Johnson. What a trio of losers to follow! We wish her a happy journey!

Sewage UK
Sewage Spills Spark UK Public Warning Against Swimming in Some Beaches - Bloomberg

Truss and the Americans
Inside Liz Truss’s not so special relationship with the US | Financial Times (ft.com)

Liz Truss met with US lobbyists who tanked Obama’s Clean Energy Act | openDemocracy

[Stavros]

Two paragraphs from a recent article by John Harris lay bare the challenges facing the new PM.

"In 2018, a report by the TUC revealed that private and public investment as a proportion of national income put us 34th in a ranking of 36, trailed only by Portugal and Greece. In the 40 years to 2019, fixed investment in the UK averaged 19% of GDP, the lowest in the G7. Now, business investment in the UK remains more than 9% below its pre-pandemic level. Crucial parts of our national infrastructure have been failed twice over: first when they were state-owned and let down by the stinginess of the man from the ministry – and then when they became privatised victims of modern capitalism’s increasing fondness for stripping out, squeezing down, and chasing dividends.

The fate of England’s water is a particularly vivid example. Pipes, reservoirs and treatment works were once owned and run by local councils, but are now in the possession of a mind-boggling mess of interests that includes a Malaysian conglomerate called the YTL corporation, Norway’s state-owned bank and JP Morgan Asset Management. The consequences have been as mad as that suggests: between 1991 and 2019, such shareholders were paid £57bn in dividends – nearly half what the water companies spent on maintaining and improving their infrastructure."
Britain has been avoiding its biggest problems for decades. Now we’re paying the price | John Harris | The Guardian

[Stavros]

"For the first time in Britain’s history, there will not be a white man in one of the four great offices of state.Prime minister-in-waiting Liz Truss, who beat Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest, is expected to appoint James Cleverly as foreign secretary, Suella Braverman as home secretary and Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor."
UK’s four great offices of state may soon not feature a white man for first time | Politics | The Guardian

The policies are what matters, and from what we have been told, we are all in for a rough ride.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Speaking of Queen Elizabeth ... have you checked the news today?

[Jericho]

The policies are what matters, and from what we have been told, we are all in for a rough ride.

Rough?
We're going to get fucked up the arse, with a handful of sand for lubricant!

[Jericho]

Speaking of Queen Elizabeth ... have you checked the news today?

Yes...The Queen is dead, long live the King, or something.

[Stavros]

I recommend the article by David Edgerton, and indeed his book on post-war British history.

"For most of the Conservative party, Brexit was far more important than royal propriety. What to them would once have been an incendiary charge that, as prime minister, Boris Johnson “lied to the Queen” to get a politically convenient prorogation of parliament made little impact, despite being true. In fact, it was a weaker accusation than it might seem, for it was that the prime minister had told fibs to the particular cherished royal person rather than to the sovereign.

Another telling sign was given by our new prime minister. Having just kissed the hands of the dying monarch, she eulogised her wrongly. Speaking from outside Downing Street, Liz Truss said the late Queen “was the very spirit of Great Britain”. Clearly, no one in Downing Street knew to advise the notionally unionist Truss that her late Majesty was Queen of the whole undivided United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."

That is telling. While it is a common error in the country at large, and in the media, it is an extraordinary one to be made by a Conservative prime minister on such a solemn national occasion and in the context of the politics of the Northern Ireland protocol. She and her advisers clearly did not know or care.
The Tories were once the party of the monarchy. Now they have other priorities | David Edgerton | The Guardian

[rodinuk]

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Another telling sign was given by our new prime minister. Having just kissed the hands of the dying monarch, she eulogised her wrongly...

Inconvenient as it may be for the facts to get in the way of your version of the truth she did not kiss the hands of the monarch.

AFAIK the meeting was not whilst Her Majesty was dying either.

[obslam]

Inconvenient as it may be for the facts to get in the way of your version of the truth she did not kiss the hands of the monarch.

AFAIK the meeting was not whilst Her Majesty was dying either.

Don't reply with true facts to the troll. It's inconvenient for his "truth."

Just a sad person who loves everything to be a disaster and for some weird reason can't handle that it clearly isn't.

[Stavros]

Inconvenient as it may be for the facts to get in the way of your version of the truth she did not kiss the hands of the monarch.

AFAIK the meeting was not whilst Her Majesty was dying either.

I never said any of the above, it is quoted in the article by David Edgerton, as should be obvious from the presence of the quotation marks and the reference to the article in the Guardian, though I forgot to include the marks in the final paragraph.